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TRANSLATION. 
see, will become most essential in the diagnosis, prognosis, and 
treatment of diseases. 
At the request of the Secretary of the United States Veteri 
nary Medical Association, we publish the notice of the annual 
meeting of the Association, an occasion of which we have no doubt, 
every member will take advantage and be ready to answer the 
roll call. 
THE GERMS THEORY. 
ITS APPLICATION TO MEDICINE AND SURGERY. 
By M. M. Pasteur, Chamberjland and Joubert. 
Translated by A. Liautard, M.D ., V.S. 
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 222. 
The numerous cultivations of the septic vibrio that we had to 
make, allowed us to verify curious facts concerning the natural 
history of microscopic organisms. 
One of the liquids that we used was the extract known as Lie¬ 
big’s bouillon, diluted in ten times its weight of water and neu¬ 
tralized or rendered slightly alkaline and warmed to a tempera¬ 
ture of 115° for fifteen minutes, thus rendering it entirely im- 
putreseible to the contact of pure air. 
We have said that the septic vibrio is formed of small moving 
little threads. This is particularly its appearance when collected 
in the abdominal serosity or muscles of dead septicemic animals; 
but it is often associated, specially in muscles and particularly 
those of the abdomen, with very small, generally immovable 
bodies having a lenticular form. These carrying sometimes at their 
extremities a corpuscle germ, remains to us for a long time a puz¬ 
zle and a mystery. We have learned, however, by our trial in 
cultivation that they are nothing else than one form of the septic 
